Fireplaces

[Frank Bellamy, MAP Masters of Applied Politics]

This is our 3rd Winter Season without gas or oil heat we burn wood exclusively.  We purchased a Quadrafire 5700 Wood Burning Stove from Youngstown Propane in Canfield.  The stove was a bit pricy but it heats our entire 2 story old home.  It takes some fore thought to prepare for the winter by collecting, cutting and splitting wood but we have no home heating bill...My wife and I rate this purchase as one of our best financial decisions.   

[Rick Rowlands]

Lets just throw the environmentalists in the fireplaces and be done with it. 

Isn't it funny how the news media conveniently ignores the benefits of global warming.  One of which might be the reduced need for fireplaces!

[jay]

The standard fireplace is not a good way to heat a home.  Unless designed with an outside air source, the heated room air would be used for combustion and would be exhausted up the chimney.
A burning fireplace is very romantic though.

[Towntalk]

With winter coming, what could be nicer to snuggle up with a good book, and a glass of eggnog in front of a fireplace on a cold winter night?

That picture is agelessly preserved in Christmas cards and promoted on home improvement shows on television, but for folks in some cities that idyllic vision may be a thing of the past thanks in no small part to environmentalists. If they have their way, fireplaces would be outlawed as being a source of global warming.

Here in our area, a working fireplace is a source of savings on our fuel bills, but if the environmentalists have their way, out with the fireplace even if it means that this would mean using more fossil fuels to heat our home.

When you are looking for a new home, how much importance do you give to a fireplace? Would you make your decision to buy based on whether or not the house had a working fireplace?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/22/EDNKTDK1S.DTL